Musings

I Can’t help Myself …

Unable to leave well enough alone, I tinkered some more with itex2MML. The latest version does the following:

1. Because of MathML’s strange inheritance rules for the <mi> element, \mathrm{a} did not, as you might expect, produce an upright $\mathrm{a}$, but instead produced an $a$. Now it does the right thing.
2. I purged itex2MML of the deprecated fontstyle and fontweight attributes, substituting the preferred mathvariant attribute instead.
3. I added \tfrac{·}{·}, the AMSLaTeX synonym for {\textstyle \frac{·}{·}}

4. With much trepidation, I added colour support, in the form of \color and \bgcolor. Hideous, inaccessible, things are — of course — possible. (I will resist the temptation to link to some examples.) But a judicious use of colour need not always be bad.

   $$\bgcolor{#DEF}\: x(t)= x_0 \color{purple} e^{-\gamma t} \color{red} \cos({\color{blue}\omega} t)\:$$

   is produced by

   $$
   \bgcolor{#DEF}\:
   x(t) = x_0 \color{purple} e^{-\gamma t}
   \color{red} \cos({\color{blue}\omega} t)\:
   $$

To enable the colour features in comments required yet another re-jiggering of our sanitize spec.

Oh, and the rendering bug on MacOSX, which screwed up \overline? Fixed that.